FULL EPISODE! This time on the PURE TOKYOSCOPE Podcast, authors Matt Alt (Pure Invention: How Japan Made the Modern World) and Patrick Macias (Mondo Tokyo: Dispatches from a Secret Japan) take a sneak peek at the yokai-themed auction soon to begin at Mandarake at Nakano Broadway! From Japanese folklore to license-free Frankensteins, this one will have you asking, “Is my left foot a yokai?”
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SHOW NOTES
Foe-Bots!
Mandarake Yokai Auction Catalog
Patrick’s Star Trek Micro Machine Box Set
Galoob Micro Machines Commercial 1986
Space 1999 Eagle by Popy
Star Trek Doujinshi at Mandarake
The House Where Jet Jaguar Was Born
AI Art in Mandarake Catalog (History of Kamishibai)
Haunted House Tin Toy by Marx
Pee-Wee Herman with Haunted House Tin Toy by Marx on David Letterman (1983)
Mandarake “Yokai” Auction Gallery
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SHOW NOTES
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Thanks for sharing all the images!